4/27/2012

Fame Isn't any Whim

By Linda Tapscott


How many people do you suppose set out to become famous? It’s not really something you can predetermine. It was Andy Warhol who said everybody would be famous for fifteen minutes. Given the global population, that is not a realistic expectation and the irony is that Warhol is now as famous for that quotation as he is for painting a can of soup.

It appears to become the quest of modern day youth to want about how to become a famous person, but they don't need to perform for it. They think that acquiring themselves on tv will automatically guarantee them fame. Absolutely nothing could possibly be additional from the truth. There's a surfeit of reality shows on Television nowadays ranging from TOWIE inside the south to Geordie Shore inside the north. All populated by young gorgeous folks chasing a fame they are going to in no way accomplish. They could grow to be really well-known to a few million folks, as well as a tiny percentage of these may well want their autograph, but renowned they are going to in no way be.

Ten years ago the BBC commissioned a poll of the top 100 Greatest Britons, one could easily substitute “famous” for Greatest, and the results would have been very much the same. The most interesting finding was that not one living person featured in the top ten, and Margaret Thatcher was the highest living person at sixteenth. The list included famous Britons from all walks of life and the highest placed celebrity was Michael Crawford at a surprising seventeenth.

If they repeated the method nowadays, how distinct would the outcomes be? Instances have changed; the net has created far beyond anybody’s wildest imagination. We now have hundreds of tv channels, twenty 4 hour news coverage, as well as a media and public with an insatiable appetite for celebrity chat. Magazines spend millions of pounds to orchestrate a celebrity wedding, and newspapers have celebrity hotlines to collect a lot more gossip.

How several folks could let you know who Tim Berners Lee, Francis Crick or Patrick Steptoe is nowadays? Not as several who could determine Robbie Williams, Katie Value, or Wayne Rooney. The distinction right here may be the 1st 3 didn't set out as to how to become famous. Fame came from what they achieved, and as a result of the contribution they've created for the planet we reside in. They are going to nevertheless be renowned in yet another hundred years and when the BBC carries out yet another survey in 3002 Berners Lee, Crick and Steptoe will certainly be on the list.




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